Well I definitely won't be getting one then. I don't play pirated games at all and think that pirating games is immoral; however, I'm not convinced that any firm should be able to monitor your usage of YOUR device to quite these levels.
A well crafted EULA fixes this entirely. It's a contract that is signed, technically, on purchase. If you don't abide by the contract, then thats your fault.Logan Westbrook said:I wouldn't be at all surprised if Nintendo has to fight one or more lawsuit over this decision sometime in the future.
Gotta remember that these things will be being played on planes and such, being handheld consoles and all. There absolutely has to be a way to turn the wifi off. I mean, hell, the new Pokémon games even have an "always on" wifi system and they say, explicitly (and annoyingly) to turn it off if you're playing on a plane. Nintendo is smarter than forgetting about airplanes and wifi.GiantRaven said:I guess that when I idly suggested that Nintendo were shooting themselves in the foot with the 3DS, I was more right than I ever could have imagined. Poor battery life, wi-fi that you can't turn off (or at least, I assume that's what 'always on' means), and ultra-crazy DRM. Why on earth would anyone want to buy a 3DS?
Darn. I was interested in seeing how this played out...JediMB said:*reads the source articles*
Destructoid's Dale North is merely speculating on the possibilities of the 3DS' playtime logging feature.
GoNintendo's RawmeatCowboy shows us that retailers are worried that unsupported modifications might lead to firmware updates "bricking" the machines, as the updates might be incompatible with the modifications. This has always been an issue with the Wii as well, and is in no way a sign of Nintendo having plans to disable 3DS units remotely!
Clearly, the term "always on" is overly misleading. =PGxas said:Gotta remember that these things will be being played on planes and such, being handheld consoles and all. There absolutely has to be a way to turn the wifi off. I mean, hell, the new Pokémon games even have an "always on" wifi system and they say, explicitly (and annoyingly) to turn it off if you're playing on a plane. Nintendo is smarter than forgetting about airplanes and wifi.
I lol'd.Angus565 said:It's only a matter of time...
I'm afraid I can't let you pirate that game...
Absolutely silly. I agree with the below quote.Logan Westbrook said:-snip-
I do not like being spied on and seemingly thats what the 3DS is doing by tracking everything you do. I might not be wanting to pirate a game on the DS (even if I did, I dont know how), but what if someone uses a pirated game on it without me even realising its a pirate. After all, we all have friends who offer to show us their games and let us try them out. If a friend puts in a pirated game, whoever owns the console will be buggered and I bet the person who had the pirated game wont pay for it.Triggerhappy938 said:Wow. On one hand, I had no plans of pirating 3DS games, but now I'm really considering just not getting one. This is just a bit too Orwellian for my tastes.
I was actually thinking of how MS deals with pirated Windows. If auto-update isn't turned off, they can detect pirated copies. But instead of deactivating them, they just show a message like 'This copy of Windows is not genuine' or something. Hell, for Windows 7, MS actually updates the OS, in return of receiving error reports so that their support team is always up to date on issues with the OS.Zachary Amaranth said:I'm pretty sure if Microsoft could pull off the "always on" thing they would.Raiyan 1.0 said:Didn't Apple have a <url=http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html>similar system for jailbroken iPhones? Wow, they're not just competing with Apple into the casual market (considering Nintendo doesn't consider the PS3 or XBox 360 to be competition any more), they're competing with them in the douchbaggery security as well...
Come to think of it, compared to how MS deals with piracy, Nintendo, Sony and Apple appear positively fascist...